On This Day for June 9 - Landslide reelection victory for Margaret Thatcher, Peter I (the Great) is featured, and more

Created: 2020-06-09 10:04 Updated: 2020-06-09 10:04 Notebook: On this Day in History

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June 09

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

Peter I (the Great)

FEATURED EVENT

1983

Landslide reelection victory for Margaret Thatcher

MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY

2008: American baseball player Ken Griffey, Jr. , hit his 600th career home run, becoming the sixth player in major league history to accomplish the feat. [Test your knowledge of baseball.]

1973: American racehorse Secretariat won the Belmont Stakes (by an unprecedented 31 lengths) to capture the Triple Crown; he earlier had won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes. [Take our quiz about famous horses.]

1963: American actor Johnny Depp, who was known for his eclectic and unconventional film choices, was born. [ Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about movie actors.]

1942: On this day the residents of the village of Lidice (now in the Czech Republic) were rounded up, most to be massacred the next day in reprisal for the assassination by Czech underground fighters of Reinhard Heydrich, deputy leader of the Nazi paramilitary group SS. [Test your knowledge of Nazi officials.]

1940: German tank forces under Major General Erwin Rommel crossed the Seine River in a push to the Atlantic coast of France during World War II. [ Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about wartime Germany.]

1891: American composer and lyricist Cole Porter, who brought a worldly élan to the American musical, was born in Peru, Indiana. [Test your knowledge of composers.]

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ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY

1981

Natalie Portman
Israeli American actress

1963

Johnny Depp
American actor

1961

Michael J. Fox
Canadian actor

1672

Peter I
emperor of Russia

1891

Cole Porter
American composer and lyricist